Finding lemmy is something that recently made me happy. It got me wondering what makes you happy?

  • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago

    Playing the guitar. I took up electric guitar during the quarantine, and was getting pretty good, then about a year ago i started fingerpicking on a nice acoustic that i got at auction for only $102, and I’ve become fairly obssessed. I’ve become good enough that i can sit out on the front porch and entertain myself by running through my growing repertoire of songs, and composing new songs and arrangements. What has surprised me the most wasn’t the personal sense of accomplishment, it was how much it has greatly improved my mood and mental health.

  • SupaTuba@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 days ago
    • Doing things for the humans I love
    • Learning new thing
    • Designing things
    • Playing video games with my friends
    • Making art and music
    • Seeing other like-minded people come together to fight for what we believe in
  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Oh, lots of things.

    But recently, my chickens.

    The rooster is dumb as a brick, but endearing anyway. When he’s in the mood, and gets in my lap to cuddle, and all the stress melts out of him while I pet him, that’s gold right there.

    And the pet hen? She flicks her little tail on the arm of the couch and nestles in as close as she can to my side, and she does that sweet trill of contentment. How can that not bring peace and happiness?

    Even the volunteer hen, when she comes ruuuuuuning up from her little spot under a tree when one of us goes out, and starts her little high pitched buuuk-buk-buk because she knows we’re suckers and always bring treats, that never fails to make me smile.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    Learn to love and let curiosity make you happy. That is the most important thing I can teach anyone. I have been physically disabled and in near total social isolation for 11 years. If I am cut off from this place Lemmy, I can still keep my mind occupied and engaged using my curiosity while only marginally less healthy for lack of interactions with others. If I were in prison, I would still have my curiosity. Even in solitary I can find ways to stay engaged with myself as a last measure. If I were confined like Hawking was with ALS, I would still be a curious explorer. My curiosity is how I avoid focusing on what I have lost or what I am unable to do. When I feel hurt I jump into a curious project. There are interesting curiosities in everything around us. None of us understands all of the fundamentals about the things that surround us in daily life. So find some junk and take it apart until you figure it out. When most people are board, like sitting around at a mall, I am people watching and trying to guess what motivates someone, their story, and where they are going. Or I can explore my entire science fiction universe I call Parsec 7 and think about what is happening with Bibble and other characters in a distant future living in an O’Neill cylinder around Alsafi in the next age of technology once biology is mastered as an engineering discipline.

    You see, curiosity is universally grounding. If you are still alive with a conscious mind, curiosity is universally available to you as a refuge, so embrace it.

    • Pip1234@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      ¡Totally agree! I would add that sometimes we can do less involved things to explore and sarisfy curiosity, like for example reading!!!

      I’m currently engulfing this amazing book “Project Hail Mary”.

      Highly recomend It!!!

    • SupaTuba@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I’ve been toying with the ideas of existentialism (with a touch of absurdism) in my hard-fought battle against nihilism.

      I’ve finally found some peace in the following:

      • The universe has no divine plan for us or our purpose
      • It is up to us to determine what gives our life meaning

      And in thinking of this, I came to the following core aspirations of my existence (in no exact order):

      • Knowledge
      • Joy
      • Love
      • Activism

      I do believe, as you said, that curiosity is a fundamental and uniting facet of humanity. It is truly remarkable what we can achieve, especially with the vast wealth of information at our fingertips. I have finally gotten back to making time for tinkering (both physically and philosophically).

      I feel like I am rediscovering parts of myself that had disappeared into the void of monotony. Thank you for sharing your joy and curiosity. Your science fiction universe sounds wonderful. The fact that one mind can create such a thing is a wonder, in and of itself.

        • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
          12·
          3 days ago

          And not a lesbian I presume? As opposed to someone who had a message removed for saying we’re sluts? What about the other banned person?

          Of note, the “abuse” I was banned for, which was of me making a transphobic remark I regret and which the victim forgave me for after I apologized (and who two years later I am trying to snap out of being down on himself due to the people who wanted to expose my remarks), wasn’t anymore relevant to a community for women set up by a misogynist (whose community seems to not be for the trans, going by the other logs) than the fact we are allies now.

          • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            31·
            3 days ago

            And not a lesbian I presume?

            Why would a lesbian not be considered as “women-identifying”? From the comment above:

            Please note that !WomensStuff@lazysoci.al is a women-identifying community only.
            !askwomen@lemmy.ca is where you would want to go. 👍

            As opposed to someone who had a message removed for saying we’re sluts?

            I had a look at the whole thread: https://midwest.social/post/25121964/16240093

            It’s obvious that the removed comment was ironic. I suspect that you reported this comment, and that the mod only saw the comment without the context and removed it.

            Hello @seahorse@midwest.social, sorry to bother you, but could you please have a look at the comment I linked just above, and see it there wasn’t a misunderstanding about the removal? Thank you.

            What about the other banned person?

            They were banned because they said they were a man and commented on a women-targeted post: https://lazysoci.al/post/23102645/14481815 . Not sure what is supposed to be wrong here.

            I’m a guy

            Of note, the “abuse” I was banned for

            You’ve been banned from lemmy.balahaj.zone, a bunch of communities from LW, and lemmy.dbzer0.com: https://lemm.ee/modlog?userId=476956

            Your most recent comment here seems to indicate you are indeed trying to abuse people: https://lemm.ee/comment/19316780

            • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
              13·
              2 days ago

              Why would a lesbian not be considered as “women-identifying”?

              That’s what I was trying to ask. The question of theirs was about getting together with women. We do that too, not just men. A random person’s reminder about it being a community only for us in response to a recommendation does not mean the original asker isn’t one thing or another thing. Both people had hinted elsewhere about gender identity, but not in the way brought up.

              It’s obvious that the removed comment was ironic. I suspect that you reported this comment, and that the mod only saw the comment without the context and removed it.

              I promise you I did not see it until after. Those suspicions, similar to all the suspicions of me being one person or another (this seems to be a very phantom habit of people, to suspect I did or am something), I have faith can be dissuaded by asking their mods. Ironically I’ve been trying to advocate for a fix for this very type of thing for reasons like this.

              You’ve been banned from lemmy.balahaj.zone, a bunch of communities from LW, and lemmy.dbzer0.com: https://lemm.ee/modlog?userId=476956

              Your most recent comment here seems to indicate you are indeed trying to abuse people: https://lemm.ee/comment/19316780

              I was not banned anywhere else for the same reason though, not that I was even banned from all those places (which was talked about at various times). I wasn’t referring to them, I was referring to the ban that just happened. The one marked with the words “history of abusing people”. The latter community you mentioned got rid of me due to a feud that went back to me trying to enforce rules regarding advocacy of death, which they didn’t like. To demonstrate how serious LW is about keeping communities safe from that, much of LW later got rid of me because they thought other things I’ve said was advocating death. The person who was trying to accelerate this, ironically the same person who was trying to shout to the world out of spite (to get back at me, for completely unrelated, year-old reasons they have been acting on for all that time) that I had any history saying anything indicating transphobia (while convincing everyone to ignore that me and the victim made up and that the slanderer in question is being transphobic against), was banned for their own crusade (is that worth mentioning), and in a way which extends to the whole service it would seem. It’s their words, themselves taken out of context, which turned into my random ban from a random community for women, because the person who banned me was an onlooker making assumptions, just as I am accused of being, so when I saw that even the person in charge might be dubious, and that they used the reason “not a woman” on the other two individuals, I said the words “it depends on what you mean”, because it comes off as transphobic to at least anyone who isn’t identifying as a guy, and again, the instance’s rules come to mind. That is all. I don’t know why that one sentence comes off as abusive, and I’d encourage you to ask the community if they allow male-to-female individuals, a part of my judgment being that the other peoples’ bans beg the question of transition being ruled out and that, again, I was banned for reasons that indicate this particular community should care but where everything else questions that, one whose promotion came off as selective considering the circumstances and considering who else would have wanted a community promotion but couldn’t get one.

              • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
                21·
                2 days ago

                who else would have wanted a community promotion but couldn’t get one

                What was preventing anyone to post their own community in this thread?

  • peaches@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    4 days ago
    • Cooking for friends and family and seeing the enjoy the food
    • sunny days
    • having had a good night sleep and feeling a super human because of it
    • being in nature
    • eating a juicy, tangy, sweet peach, especially directly from the tree
  • Opinionhaver@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    Not sure if happiness is the right word for it but receiving genuine gratitude for a work well done from my customers sure makes what I do feel meaningful.